source file: mills3.txt Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 16:35:02 +0100 Subject: Bucking the system From: Steven Rezsutek Just a quick note to share my excitement with folks who will appreciate it. As I sat on the couch yesterday, avoiding hanging insulation in my soon-to-be studio, and rereading Pauls paper on 22 for the sixth or seventh time, words that I had uttered the night before came back to haunt me. [I had been lamenting the current state of "LSI injection molded no user modifiable parts inside" that modern electronics have become.] While I was looking at Pauls keyboard mapping for 22, the engineers urge ["Where's my Leatherman?"] hit, and off came the cover of my "bargain" keyboard. Within 20 minutes, I was out of the door to pick up another kbd as a source of more "keys" at the conveiniently running sale. At this point I'm about half way through rebuilding the keyboard as a 22TET controller. I pretty much took Paul literally, and left the 'E's out, although the actual arrangement of the keys is a bit different, as necessitated by the injection molded parts, and the odd spacing of the cutouts in the white keys. The net result is a repeating pattern of 5 black/6 white, and a gap the size of a black key every "octave" (two groups). Pretty slick, I thought. I'll probably finish the assembly this evening while the cheesecake is in the oven, and then all that remains it to redo the tuning table on my ClassicKeys and I'll be off and running (or stumbling, in my case :) The whole point is that it *can* be done (still), and while buying 2 keyboards probably isn't how those of you with classy instruments would want to go (perhaps get a service manual and order the extra keys), it worked fine for me, and I now have a couple of circuit boards that convert switch closure to MIDI to use in another project in the future. Steve SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Steven Rezsutek Subject: Minor addendum to "Bucking the system" PostedDate: 10-11-97 20:20:20 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 10-11-97 20:19:09-10-11-97 20:19:10,10-11-97 19:19:27-10-11-97 19:19:27 DeliveredDate: 10-11-97 19:19:27 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C125654B.006A1CB7; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 20:19:01 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA08291; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 20:20:20 +0100 Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 20:20:20 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA08270 Received: (qmail 11567 invoked from network); 10 Nov 1997 11:20:16 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Nov 1997 11:20:16 -0800 Message-Id: <199711101918.OAA25808@doghouse.hq.nasa.gov> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu